Profile Information
Location
Glencoe, IL
Country
United States
Postal Code
60022
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
I founded FirstPerson Narratives to engage adults who experienced developmental adversity within their primary caregiving system and create safe spaces where we nurture our internal resources and expand our capacity to foster embodied healing, brain-body integration, and restore our self-identity.
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Our mission is to engage adults with the lived experience of developmental adversity to co-create community-driven, work-study programs that foster inner-wellbeing through connection to self, community, and purpose.
Using applied improvisation, embodied movement, expressive art-making, music, and storytelling – FirstPerson’s model integrates evidence-based insights and healing-centered practices into coherent narrative identity programs. Grant-winning community stakeholders adapt base model practices to meet their cultural contexts.
Our programs create safe spaces where we nurture our internal resources and expand our capacity to foster embodied healing, brain-body integration, and restore our self-identity. Together, we work, heal, and protect the children that follow in our footsteps.
We’re in the start-up phase. Funding is secured to co-create the base model and support pilot program implementation, research, and evaluation.
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
At FirstPerson Narratives, we envision a future with universal access to safe, generative, expressive arts-based healing for those impacted by ACEs.
If you're part of a community-based PACEs initiative, which one?
We are exploring the opportunities in our area.
